Stand-by Joined: 4/1/04
The year - 1993
The college I attended was asked by Disney to put a choir together and tour the states for a couple months doing 'Disney's Symphonic Fantasy'.
We were at the Met for two weeks and a group of us went to see 'Crazy For You'.
We also saw 'Goodbye Girl', 'Will Rogers' Follies', 'Kiss of the Spider Woman', and 'Jelly's Last Jam'.
I was hooked.
Leading Actor Joined: 2/21/05
9-April 1994 Original Broadway Cast of Beauty and the Beast
mmm good times
The Phantom of the Opera deflowered me at the tender age of 5.
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/06
I was 13, but the first professional show I saw when I was five and I don't remember anything about it except there were four actors and one was in drag. Pretty age-appropriate stuff for a kindergartener
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
I was 13. It was the day before Thanksgiving of 1983 and the show was My One and Only with Twiggy, Tommy Tune and the LEGENDARY Charles "Honey" Coles. St. James Theater, fourth or fifth row, Orchestra right. I was SHOCKED at how tiny the St. James was compaired with our MASSIVE 3,500 seat warehouse of an auditorium in Dallas which was the only experience I'd had watching musicals up until that point and it totally changed my perspective on what a good show and a bad show was and how much it mattered what size theater a show plays in, etc. To say it was life-changing is an understatement. oh, we also saw Cats, Nine and Brighton Beach Memoirs in that order, all of which were fantastic.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
I was 7. It was 1996 and we saw Beauty and the Beast. That was one of the best days ever.
7 for Sound of Music
16. My Uncle bought me a NYC trip for my Birthday, and the first show we saw was "Annie Get your Gun" This was August of 2001.
15. I saw the OBC of The Pillowman.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
14. It was Avenue Q on Sunday April 3, 2005, 7 p.m.
Four years old, MISS SAIGON
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
5 years old, The Phantom of the Opera. Year: 1995.
I was 16. January 25, 2005 (2 weeks after my birthday). The show was RENT.
Broadway Star Joined: 4/6/06
fourish-fivish...
Something like the sound of music, YAGMCB wa sone of my first shows, as was Peter Pan.
14- Wicked
I had seen many shows before that but none of them ever clicked like "this is really fun"
Swing Joined: 8/3/06
RENT in 2000. I was only 10 years old. My dad was going to get tickets to The Lion King, but apparently they were all sold out so he bought the RENT ones instead. Now I am so extremely happy that he did that because that was what started my whole obsession with broadway! I actually understood pretty much all of the show surprisingly. The things I remember most though were the music(LOVED IT!)and how close we were to the stage (3rd though i think).
8 years old- Beauty and the Beast
I lost it when I was 11. Phantom.
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
26, Movin Out at the Rodgers on September 22, 2004.
My first Broadway show: 15
My first big musical (in Toronto): 8
age 10 - cats
Leading Actor Joined: 8/1/04
Official Broadway virginity -- 24 with Cats
Third Base (professional Chicago production) -- probably 7 or 8 with Tony Randall in The Music Man
Second Base (University theater in my hometown) -- probably 4 or 5 with nameless/faceless shows I don't remember
First Base (community theater) -- in utero?
I saw my first broadway show on my 21st birthday! Now I have a tradition of seeing a show every year for my birthday.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
It was November 1949. I was 13 and saw Irving Berlin's MISS LIBERTY at the Imperial Theatre starring Eddie Albert,Allyn McLerie, and Mary McCarty, with chorepgraphy by Jerome Robbins.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
Age 24 Wicked!
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